Crushing machine



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UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

CLARK L. SMITH, or SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, AssIenoa r SPOKANE casxnr cor/r- PANY, or sron'nnn, WASHINGTON, Acon-ronA'rIoN.

I onusnrne MAoHInn.

Application filed April 13, 1925. Serial No. 22,730.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, CLARK L. SMITH, a" citizen of the United States, residing at Spo-' kane, 1n Spokane County and State of l/Vashington, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Crushing Machines, of which the following is'a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in Crushing Machines ofthe type employed for fashioning tufts or ornamental irregularities in textile materialor fabric,

such as material used inlining caskets etc.

The machine is employed in connection with hand stitching for securing the backing on the crushed fabric while the latter 1s 1n the machine, and the invention 1s designed for the purpose of increasing the production will hereinafter be and efficiency aswell as reducing the expense involved in time and labor employedand required. To accomplish this purpose I utilize a bodily tiltable main frame and a relatively tiltable supporting frame for the *crushing rods, whereby the parts may with ,facility be manipulated in the progress of the work.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts as more fully set forth and claimed. i r

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention wherein the parts are combined and arranged according to the best mode I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention.

Figure 1 is a top plan View of a machine embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a detail sectional view enlarged. at one end of the machine.

Figure 3 is a detail end view at one corner of the rectangularly shaped machine.

-Figure 4 is a side elevation of the machine showing the table with the crushing frame in fulland dotted lines, and the crushing rods and their holder also tilted to dotted line position.

Figure 5 is a detail perspective view showi Figure 1 forthe removal of the completed material. The bodily-tiltable crushing frame carries a rod holder which is also tiltable with relation to the frame, for the purpose of removing all of the crushing rods simultaneously from the "completed material.

The rectangular crushing frame is made up of suitable material and in desired sizes to accommodate various widths of material andsaid frame comprises a. pair of side bars 3 arranged along the opposite parallel ends of the table. A pair of brackets 4 are fastened at opposite ends of the table at the rear corners and these side bars of the frame are pivotedat 5v in the brackets. The crushing frame normally lies flat .upon the top of the table and is provided with a pair of parallel spaced supporting plates 6 which ex-v tend from the front to the rear of the frame, and above these inwardly projecting plates are spaced top retaining and guide plates 7 secured to the side bars 3 of the frame and forming a part thereof. The rectangular crushing frame is completed by the use of a pair ofbars 9 at the front and rear to form a rigid structure pivoted or hinged at 5 above the table. g I 1 i Within the crushing frame is ,carried a series of transversely extending slats 10 each having slide ends 11 located between the bottom plates 6 and the retaining plates 7, and a guide shoulder 12 is fashioned ateach end of each slat for co-actionwith the inner edge of the retaining plates 7. All of the slats are connected together by means of a flexible strip or strips as indicated at 13, which is preferably made up of suitable tape or webbingsecured at the undersides of the slats. The slats are normally spaced apart on the webbing ortapes sothat they may be, slid together to close the frame when thematerial M is to be crushed, or separated one from another after the completed product has been removed from the frame.

For closing or opening the crushing frame I use an end bar 14 preferably of angle iron, to which the connecting tapes are secured, at their ends. This bar has a pair of spaced handles 15 attached. thereto for facility in manipulating it, and it will .be understood that the frame is closed by pushing the bar to successively close up the gaps between the, slats, and the frame is opened by pulling the bar to successively open the gaps between the slats. In this movement the slats are retained in relative position and guided by thebottom and upper guides 6 and 7 at each side of the frame and table.

Along their upperedges ,theslats are beveled asat 16 to prevent the material M being caught between the slats.

Each slat carries a row of headed, pins .17 projecting a suitable distance above its upper surface and the pins are arranged on the slats so that the pins of successive slats are in staggered formation but spaced apart at unifornr IDtBIVEllS, for =L1S611I1 fashioning the,

crushed; appearance on th'exfabrioor material-M.

Each slat also carries .a row of pointedstuds l8;which are considerably shorter than;

theheaded-pins inporder that the-material maysbe supportedon the frame in'such man-- nenthat the pointed studsxwill not be -in-the way ofthe'hands of'the stitcher when basting t he backing oirthe material:

As seen in Figure 2 the material is placed 1 upon ithezheaded pins qwhile thecrushing. frameis open,'that,is the slats are spaced- .apart, and the material between: the headedpins is pushed down .over therprotruding pointed. studsso that the latter penetrate.

andpass through the material. I

The rods19 are then placed-lir-position in pairs, the rods of each pair being-located.

at opposite sides ofthetalined rows of studs on-the slats, and the pair of rods locatedbe-x tween staggered headed-pins .of the slats.-. With the parts in this position the'rods are successively placed on top of the material being crushed as'the work proceeds.

The rods 19 are carried in a tiltable lholder arranged transversely "at: the rear end of the machine and carried by the crushing frame.

crushing frame.

sleeves extend transversely ofthe holder and may be secui'ed in their sleeves by turn ingthe clamp nuts 23 'to bind theplates=20 Durlng =the process 01 and 21 together. crushing the materlal, howeverthe nuts-are loosened in order that the rods in palrs may be slid through their sleevesto proper posi- I tion on the material. After all the rods have been placed in position to perform. their functions of crushing the material and with the-rods clamped in the holder and the material has been properly fashioned,

.lhis holder comprises a pair of comple nientary plates 20 and 21 that maybe clamped together by means of bo'lts 22 and wing nuts 23, and the ends ofthe holder are 'fa's'hionedwvith trunnions'or pivot pins 1 24 supported in brackets 25 secured to the By means of a crank handle'26 at either-end of the machine the hdldenma-y be turnedon its'trunnions fortilting the rods which are carriedin pairsof. sleeves 27 fashioned in-the holder. These-- and: table: respectively. hen in: extended position :the apron" may a 'be' held as in. Fig-- ure. 4 by means .of a supporting: bar 32 hinged to-the apronat 33, and a spring 54. resilient support'forw on the bar is :used. as. a the apron.

In Figure 1 it willlbe seen that the rods abut 'agalnst the push bar'cl ti 1Viththe clainp plates loosened,- when :the crushing.

frame is .closedbypushing upon the bar 14 it Will be apparentthat-the rods are pushedv withwtheir ends extended through their sleeves, as'indicated by dotted lines in Fig.

ure 4. Int.-this position the rods may be manipulated singly, or all the rods may betilted when the holder'is turned on its trunnions. not the crushing-frame may be tilted to per-- mit the-loose rodsto slide through their sleeves tothe aproinafter which the finished productis removed with facility.

Having thus fully described :my invention, What I claim as new and desire toisecure by Letters Patent; is

Before rernovingthe finished prod-.

1..Thei' combination :with a mainframe andi. flexiblyrzconnected slats :th'erein, ofr a tiltable holder parallel with the slats, Cl'llSlle ingurods arranged ini pairs a11d-carried by said holdersfor"co-action with the slats, and means for clamplngsaidirods .in the holder.

2. The combination with: a .main frame and flexibly .connected slats therein, said slats havingeach a row of headed pins, and

shorter studs carriedby saidslats in alined' rowsa'transvcrselyiof the' slats, of a tiltable holder carried by the=mai1r frame,;icrushing.

rods arranged, inpains'and carried by said holder, said rods adaptedto rest atopposite sides of said. alined :rows, and means-for clampingthe rods in the holder.-

3. s The COmb1I12Lt10Il"W113l1' a table; of-a hinged crushing flfilDGyh series of flexibly connected :slats having headed 131118" and sh'ortenpointed studs, a tiltable holder on said frame, pairs of crushing rods carried, 5 by said holder for co action @With the studs, I

and .meansi for clamping the rods in. the' holder.

In testimony whereof I afiix mysignature.

CLARK L.: SMITH. 

